Transportation During the British Industrial Revolution Karen Lin
... and final steam powered train. It was able to pull 5 cars and traveled at 5 miles per hour. Following his inventions there was another engineer named George Stephenson started working on the steam locomotives as well. Before his invention of steampowered trains he improved the railway tracks str ...
... and final steam powered train. It was able to pull 5 cars and traveled at 5 miles per hour. Following his inventions there was another engineer named George Stephenson started working on the steam locomotives as well. Before his invention of steampowered trains he improved the railway tracks str ...
Steam Engine-1-moving pictures
... Britian tracks carried wagons pulled by horses • 1804- Richard Trevithick put a steam engine to a mine wagon • 1814-George Stevenson had the first working steam locomotive • 1830 -1st railway opened between Liverpool and Manchester ...
... Britian tracks carried wagons pulled by horses • 1804- Richard Trevithick put a steam engine to a mine wagon • 1814-George Stevenson had the first working steam locomotive • 1830 -1st railway opened between Liverpool and Manchester ...
Industrialism Begins
... Transportation • John McAdam – Scottish, works to make roads that are covered with a smooth layer of crushed rock (HELLOMODERNIZATION!) • No sinking in the mud! • New roads called turnpikes – Have to pay tolls ($$) at a turnpike to travel on that road. ...
... Transportation • John McAdam – Scottish, works to make roads that are covered with a smooth layer of crushed rock (HELLOMODERNIZATION!) • No sinking in the mud! • New roads called turnpikes – Have to pay tolls ($$) at a turnpike to travel on that road. ...
Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall, England. Born in the mining heartland of Cornwall, Trevithick was immersed in mining and engineering from an early age. The son of a mining captain, he performed poorly in school, but went on to be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport. His most significant contribution was the development of the first high-pressure steam engine. He also built the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive. On 21 February 1804 the world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey took place as Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.Turning his interests abroad, Trevithick also worked as a mining consultant in Peru and later explored parts of Costa Rica. Throughout his professional career, he went through many ups and downs, and at one point faced financial ruin, also suffering from the strong rivalry of many mining and steam engineers of the day. During the prime of his career, he was a well-respected and known figure in mining and engineering, but near the end of his life and after he fell out of the public eye.